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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Shireshead like this:
SHIRESHEAD, or Shirehead, a chapelry in Garstang and Cockerham parishes, Lancashire; on the river Wyre, 1¾ mile N by E of Scorton r. station, and 4 N by E of Garstang. Post town, Garstang. Pop., 397. Houses, 95. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £110.* Patron, the Vicar of Cocker bam. The church is modern.
Shireshead is now part of WYRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how WYRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Shireshead itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Shireshead, in Wyre and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25126
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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